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Added on the 24/06/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Banda Aceh, Jun 15 (EFE/EPA).- Indonesian airports continued Tuesday to set up checkpoints where they run rapid COVID-19 tests on passengers before boarding planes.Indonesia has so far recorded over 1.9 million cases of COVID-19 and 53,116 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. (Camera: HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK).SHOT LIST: PASSENGERS UNDERGO COVID-19 TEST BEFORE BOARDING PLANES IN BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA.
Spanish customs officers check motorists' PCR tests at the Perthus crossing on the border with France, after the extension of the measure to entries via the land border. IMAGES
Gizmodo reports San Francisco and Alameda counties in California have stopped using Verily to test for the novel coronavirus. Google's health-centered sister company launched a $55 million pilot COVID-19 testing program earlier this year to set up mobile and stationary test sites. However, Verily’s services weren’t geared towards filling the needs of communities especially vulnerable to the pandemic. Specifically, the services put people of color, those with low income, and the homeless at a disadvantage for using Verily's site and accessing test results. Another complaint was that Verily reserves the right to use collected data for 'commercial product research and development.' While Verily says strict privacy controls are in place, critics say the system may still violate federal health data privacy laws.
In the early days of the pandemic, the CDC said people should have two negative COVID-19 tests, 24 hours apart, before being around other people. Now, CDC guidelines say people aren't likely to be infectious 10 to 20 days after symptoms first began, regardless of test results. Also, before leaving isolation, people's symptoms should have improved and they should have gone 24 hours with no fever. President Donald Trump's physician released a memo Saturday that referenced 'advanced diagnostic tests' and stated Trump, effectively, was not contagious. However, the memo didn't fully describe those advanced diagnostic tests or their exact findings, or other vital signs, such as the president's oxygen levels.
A new, rapid, bedside test for COVID-19 delivers results in less than two hours. UPI reports a new study says such a quick turnaround means appropriate treatment can start earlier for those already hospitalized because of their symptoms. The standard COVID-19 test swabs the patient's nose and uses polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, technology. It typically takes over 20 hours to produce results. The longer patients have to wait for results, the longer COVID-19 positive patients remain in non-COVID wards. That furthers the spread of the disease. The British researchers say the point-of-care test was more than 99% accurate at correctly identifying those positive for the novel coronavirus.
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